Attacks and malware

What is Spoofing?

Faking an identity such as an email sender, caller ID, IP address or website so a message or connection appears to come from someone trusted.

Spoofing is forging an identity marker so that something appears to come from a trusted source: the From address of an email, a phone number, a website's look and address, or the source IP of network traffic.

Email spoofing is the most common in CTI work. SPF, DKIM and DMARC let receiving servers check whether a message really came from the domain it claims, but only if the domain owner publishes those records and enforces them.

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